COME back to-day to Bethlehem, The year is on the wane, A truce to strife that wearies life, A truce to grief and pain, Oh, heart return to Bethlehem And hear its song again! If siren voices luring thee Have turned thy thoughts aside, If thou hast quaffed the bitter draught Of envy or of pride, If thou in agony of shame Hast thy dear Lord denied, Come back to-day to Bethlehem, All in the quickening dawn, With wistful eyes regard the skies Ere yet the gloom is gone. Oh, list the song of Bethlehem Forever pealing on! Oh, burdened with the weight of sin And worn with many a care, Here drop thy load, the sunrise road Is open at thy prayer. Return, return to Bethlehem, The angels wait thee there! Come back, come back to Bethlehem! Behold the Virgin's Child By prophets told in ages old, The fair, the undefiled! Lo, peace is born in Bethlehem To soothe earth's tumults wild. Come back to-day to Bethlehem! Though thou hast wandered far, No rest shall fill thy yearning breast Until thou see the Star. Oh, heart return to Bethlehem Where yet the angels are! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY BOOKS by WILLIAM COWPER THE RAIN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS' by SARA TEASDALE ODE TO DUTY by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH PSALM 88 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE LOVE ON THE MOUNTAIN by THOMAS BOYD MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 5. SPEAKING OF DRIVING by BERTON BRALEY TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928 by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY |